American Inventors and Their Inventions Inventors and their inventions and how they shaped who we are today in America
(Suggestion: Why limit this to only "American" inventions/inventors? Consider the global impact of inventions?)
Driving Questions:
Which inventions in the (19th and 20th)? centuries helped to shape and define our society in the 21st century?
What were the events that lead to those inventions?
Who were the inventors?
What were the circumstances that enabled the inventors to invent their inventions?
How did the inventions change the society during the time of the invention?
Describe how the original invention has been changed, adapted, modified, re-created and what has it grown into?
How do these inventions impact our lives today?
Objectives:
Students will select inventions to research.
Students will explain the impact that these inventions had upon individuals and society in the past as well as in the present.
How has the invention changed and become modernized over time?
Research what "society", "culture" was like back during the time of the invention.
Research the process involved in applying for and securing a Patent.
Invite "inventors" from the community in to discuss their experiences.
Culminating activity could be an Invention Academy Awards Ceremony for the most "impactful" and significant invention of the 21st Century.
Project aims:
Research inventions.
Explain impact of inventions on individuals and society.
Build a model of the invention.
Examples:
Steam Engine
Airplane - Space Flight
Electricity - Solar Voltaics
Refrigeration - Cryo-Genetics
Cotton Gin
Television
Radio
Internet
Computer
Ferris Wheel
Automobile
Movable type/Printing Press
Play Dough? It was originally invented as a putty of glue and it did not work-was not patented for this use, however, the inventor's sister was a teacher and suggested that
the inventor add a dye or color to the substance for her students to play with and voila...play dough was born.
Inventors and their inventions and how they shaped who we are today in America
(Suggestion: Why limit this to only "American" inventions/inventors? Consider the global impact of inventions?)
Driving Questions:
Objectives:
Project aims:
Examples:
- Steam Engine
- Airplane - Space Flight
- Electricity - Solar Voltaics
- Refrigeration - Cryo-Genetics
- Cotton Gin
- Television
- Radio
- Internet
- Computer
- Ferris Wheel
- Automobile
- Movable type/Printing Press
- Play Dough? It was originally invented as a putty of glue and it did not work-was not patented for this use, however, the inventor's sister was a teacher and suggested that
the inventor add a dye or color to the substance for her students to play with and voila...play dough was born.